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Eucorethrina westwoodi

Insecta - Diptera - Dixidae

Taxonomy
Eucorethrina westwoodi was named by Lukashevich et al. (2001). Its type specimen is MNEMG 1998.26, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (MNEMG collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2001Eucorethrina westwoodi Lukashevich et al. p. 459 fig. 11A,B
2016Eucorethrina westwoodi Greenwalt and Moulton p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyCulicoidea
familyDixidaeVan der Wulp 1877
genusEucorethrina
specieswestwoodi

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Eucorethrina westwoodi Lukashevich et al. 2001
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Eucorethrina westwoodi (118914)
Late/Upper Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Eucorethrina westwoodi (type locality: 103833)